Sunday, November 8, 2009

How to Produce Orange Juice

Orange juice is a very popular and healthy drink worldwide. It’s full of vitamin C. Here is how the juice is produced.

First, the oranges are unloaded from the lorries. Then they are graded, washed and sized. Next the juice is extracted from the oranges and the waste is used as animal feed. After that the juice is entered into the evaporator at high temperature for a short time. Then it is concentrated. Next the juice is kept in a refrigerated storage. After that it is put into the canning machine. The step after that is the juice is shipped all over the world including Dubai Port. Then the concentrated juice is diluted by adding water into it. Finally the juice is sold in the markets.

As you can see producing orange juice is a difficult process, but if you follow the steps very carefully you will produce good orange juice.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Reflections

I learnt a few things about how to write procedure essays:

1- We use the active voice, e.g. make, boil, turn, etc.

2- We use the inking words, e.g. first, second, then, next, after that, finally.

3- We write the essay in three paragraphs in about (150 words): the introduction and the conclusion between (25-30 words) for each and between (90-100 words) for the main paragraph.

I also learnt how to write narrative essays:

1- We use the past continuous to describe something happened while we were doing something else, e.g. I was doing my homework when something broke …

2- We use the simple past for the main form, e.g. I heard, we saw, they told us …

3- Sometimes we use the past perfect to describe two actions which happened in the past, e.g. when I arrived at my house my parents were already gone.

Catching a Thief

Last weekend I went to Marina Mall to watch a movie in CineStar. I bought a ticket and I had to wait one hour until the movie started so I decided to go to Splash to buy some clothes. When I was walking inside the shop I saw a man who was trying to steal another man’s wallet.

The man who was trying to steal was standing behind the other man who was busy with choosing the right t-shirt and he didn’t realize that the man behind him was trying to steal his wallet so I decided to warn him, but I stopped and decided to wait until he took the wallet to catch him in the act. Two minutes later I saw the man step back and I thought maybe he thought about it and decided not to steal the wallet, but I was wrong because three minutes later he came back and stood behind the man and put his hand in his bucket so I ran to stop him before he ran away. When he took the wallet and turned around to run away I caught his hand and took the wallet from him and gave it back to its owner and I called the police.

The policeman came and arrested the thief and the other man thanked me a lot for what I did. At last I was happy because I caught a thief, but I also felt sad for the thief and why he tried to steal because he seemed a nice guy.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

How to Organize your Portfolio

Papers, papers, papers. Students often feel overwhelmed by the number of papers they receive from their teachers and it may seem that throwing them in the boot of their car is the best solution. However, it is actually quite easy to organize your class notes into a neat portfolio. Let me outline the steps.

First, find all your papers. You can look for missing papers on the HD1 website. You can also ask a friend and photocopy his papers. Second, sort your papers into logical divisions e.g reading, writing, listening. Next, put your papers into the different sections. After that, buy a binder and some colored dividers. Write section headings for the dividers and match them with a table of contents page. Finally, make a label for the side of the binder. Include important information e.g. class code, name etc.

As we have seen it is easy to make a portfolio. You will be proud of your neat, well-organized work.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

How to Make a Cup of Tea

Making a cup of tea is a quite easy procedure, but you have to do it in the right way. If you follow these steps very carefully you will make a good cup of tea.

First fill the kettle with water. Second switch the kettle on. Then boil the water. After that put that teabags or tealeaves into the teapot and it depends on what you prefer. Next pour the boiling water into the teapot. Then stir the water with a spoon. The step after that is that you have to pour the tea into the teacup. The next step depends on you: if you want to add something to the tea or not. If you want to add something you can add some milk, sugar or mint as you prefer. Finally stir the tea and enjoy it.

Making a cup of tea is a quite easy procedure and if you follow the steps above you will make a delicious cup of tea.

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Monday, October 19, 2009

How to Make Butter by Hand

Making butter is quite a long and difficult procedure and you need to follow all the steps very carefully. If you do so, you will produce high quality butter.

Firstly, check the milk for quality and fat content. Second leave the milk and wait until it cools. Then you have to separate the cream from the milk. The next step is that you churn the cream that you separated from the milk. After that drain the buttermilk from the butter. Then place the butter in a jar. The next step is that you wash the butter with cold water and this step is very important to remove the remaining buttermilk. Then add a small amount of salt for flavor. After that cut and wrap the butter. The last step is that you store the butter in a fridge.

Making butter is quite a long and difficult procedure, but if you follow the steps above very carefully you will produce butter easily.

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Expedition to Sydney

In July 2007 I traveled to Sydney by expedition from Abu Dhabi Educational Zone with other students from all over the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. We had a lot of problems before we went to Sydney.

They put a supervisor for every ten students and our supervisor told us that our flight would be on Thursday July 5th so when Thursday came we went to the airport and our supervisor told as he made a mistake and the flight was on Wednesday not Thursday so we had to go back to our houses and wait until he booked another flight for us. Next day he called us and told as the flight is at 5 am next day but it wasn’t directly to Sydney; we would fly to Perth and then we had to book another flight to Sydney by internal airlines. The flight took about 11 hours. After we arrived in Perth we went directly to the internal airport by bus and booked a flight to Sydney. Unfortunately the flight was cancelled three times and we stayed at the airport for two days. The first time it was cancelled for bad weather in Perth and the second time because the pilot was drunk and they told us the third time was because there was damage to the engine. The fourth time we flew to Sydney without any problems.

Although we had a lot of problems before we arrived in Sydney I had my best holiday in Sydney.

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